Beautiful Balance Inspirations

Goal: $3,000.00

Specific Need

Our specific need for the 2024 year will consist of the following:

Hand out prize money of approximately $2,700 to our Inspired Soar Higher Youth writing contest winners. We have 20 local winners. First place winners receive $150, 2nd place $75, and 3rd place $50.
We would like to give a prize of $200 to our local teachers who have the most entries.
Complete the publication of our 2024 winners. Cost ~$500.

All of our Crawford Gives funds go toward our local work with youth. We thank our local supporters who help make writing enrichment happen through Beautiful Balance Inspirations.

Mission

Beautiful Balance Inspirations exists to offer education, healthcare, and microfinance opportunities here in the USA and at our world centers in Africa, India, and Romania.

Our mission is to serve communities around the world, bringing our stories together.

Profile

Beautiful Balance Inspirations was founded after taking a return trip back to India with our adopted daughter. Our family enjoyed the heritage event but felt compelled after returning home to the USA to partner in a more significant manner to raise up education, healthcare, and microfinance opportunites both here and at partnering centers around the world. Each partner center is a registered non-government organization (NGO) in their home nations. They are run by national/native individuals in their respective countries. This allows any funds raised by Beauitul Balance Inspirations to go far in each center we support since we have no large oversight of language barriers, special insurances etc., that would be needed if non-native individuals were there doing the work. We are supporting the hopes and dreams of local native founders who have a deep love and burden for their own people to educate them, offer them healthcare opportunities, and find ways to increase their financial stability.

In 2019 we opened one new center in India and had one vision clinic and increased the tutoring of students from 45 to 70. Africa center saw the support of two children from the bush be able to do school for the year. Romania center had special events for their day center school for the poor and did some repairs on their exisiting center.

We served over 100 families at each world center in 2021/22 and over 250 families here in the USA. The same numbers were seen in 2022/23.

We saw 161 students enter the 2nd Inspired Light the Fire youth writing contest. Page Publishing in Conneaut Lake, PA once again donated the winners published book. Our local students and parents love the contest and the opportunity to see their students become published authors.

Our local goals 2024 will be to hand out the prizes for the April 2024 contest and complete the publication of the winner's book.